Their Moon Shot and Ours By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN China is doing moon shots. Yes, that’s plural. When I say “moon shots” I mean big, multibillion-dollar, 25-year-horizon, game-changing investments. China has at least four going now: one is building a network of ultramodern airports; another is building a web of high-speed trains connecting major cities;… » read more

Going-Electric is the guest speaker for the April 2010 Comment:Visions broadcast on Euronews, answering the question “If the transition to electric vehicles is so important, then why isn’t it happening faster?” in a six minutes interview. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/JR831L3wJlw” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]

Going-Electric and AVERE strongly believe that in the medium future, the car market will become fully electric. Preparing for this future requires heavy investments from car manufacturers and public authorities. Therefore, all available resources should be exclusively focussed on developing electric car technologies and markets in order to ensure the future competitiveness of the European… » read more

On 9 February 2010, the upcoming Belgian EU Presidency decided to consult the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) for an exploratory opinion on the topic “Towards a widespread use of electric vehicles“. The Section for Transport, Energy, Infrastructure and the Information Society organized on 12 April 2010 a hearing in view of completing the… » read more

The European Commission issued yesterday a Communication to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee on a European strategy on clean and energy efficient vehicles. While Going-Electric praises the Commission for being less technologically neutral and recognizing electric technologies as clean options, we deeply regret that it does not focus… » read more

The Department of Energy has closed its $465 million loan with Tesla Motors, Inc. for construction of a manufacturing facility in southern California on the Model S electric sedan and a power-train manufacturing facility in Palo Alto, California. The Palo Alto facility will assemble electric vehicle battery packs, electric motors, and related electric vehicle control… » read more